Dr. Uma Brughubanda

Uma Maheswari Bhrugubanda is the President of the Anveshi Executive Committee. She teaches in the Department of Cultural Studies at the EFL University, Hyderabad. She received her PhD in Socio-cultural Anthropology from Columbia University.  

She is the author of Deities and Devotees: Cinema, Religion and Politics in South India (Oxford University Press, 2018). She has co-edited a translation work, Vegetarians Only: Stories of Telugu Muslims (Orient Blackswan, 2016) and is a co-author of Towards a World of Equals: A Bilingual Textbook on Gender (Telugu Akademi, 2015). Her scholarly articles and reviews have appeared in Bioscope: South Asian Screen Studies, Critical Quarterly and Contributions to Indian Sociology. 

Aisha Mahmood Farooqi

Aisha Mahmood Farooqi is the Vice-President of the Anveshi Executive Committee.  She is an associate professor in the Department of Islamic Studies, Osmania University.

Dr. Asma Rasheed

Asma Rasheed is the General Secretary of the Anveshi Executive Committee. She teaches in English and Foreign Languages University. She has been associated with Anveshi for a decade. She is one of the authors of Towards a World of Equals: A Bilingual Textbook on Gender Sensitization.

Prof. Sheela Prasad

Sheela is the Joint Secretary of the Anveshi Executive Committee. She is Head of the Centre for Regional Studies, University of Hyderabad. Her primary research is in health and environment studies, urban and regional geography.

Sheela has been actively associated with Anveshi for more than a decade. She serves on the Boards of the Centre for Health and Social Sector Studies, the Ethics Committee of the Institute for Health Systems, the Centre For Peoples Forestry, and on the Research Programme Committee of Centre for Economic and Social Studies, Hyderabad.

[expand title=”Read more” swaptitle=”Back”] Select Publications 

  • ‘The Magic Mountain Revisited: History of the Madanapalle TB Sanatorium’, Economic and Political Weekly, August 16-22nd 2008, Vol. XLIII No.33 pp 52-60
  • ‘A Small Family is a Happy Family: The Politics of Population Control in India’ Recent Studies on Indian Women. Eds., K.K. Misra and Janet Huber Lowry. Jaipur: Rawat Publications, 2006. pp 253-280. 
  • ‘Health Security in A.P.’ Securing Health for All: Dimensions and Challenge. Eds., Sujata Prasad and C. Sathyamala. New Delhi: Institute of Human Development, 2006. pp 107-122. 
  • ‘Geography in India: Marginal Space’. Economic and Political Weekly. January 1, 2005. pp 79-80. 
  • ‘Impact of Urban Growth on Water Bodies: The Case of Hyderabad’. Hyderabad: Centre for Economic and Social Studies, Working Paper no.60, 2004. Co-author. 
  • ‘Reproductive Rights or Health Rights: The Politics of Population Control in India’. Indian Journal of Human Rights, 7: 1& 2, Jan-Dec 2003. pp 74-81.
  • Women’s Health. Course Material prepared for a Diploma Course in Women’s Studies. Hyderabad: Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Open University, 2001. Co-author.
  • The Third World City: Emerging Contours. Hyderabad: Delta Publishers, 1996. Co-editor.
  • Population Control Policies and Women. 1996, UGC sponsored research project. Co-author.
  • Urban Health Care: A Study of Public and Corporate Hospitals in Hyderabad. New Delhi: Delta Publishers, 1993. [/expand]

Madhumeeta Sinha

Madhumeeta Sinha is the Treasurer of the Anveshi Executive Committee. She teaches in English and Foreign Languages University. She has been associated with Anveshi for over a decade. Her doctoral dissertation is on feminist documentary filmmakers in India.

Kavita Puli

Kavita Puli is a member of Anveshi Executive Committee. 

Shefali Jha

Shefali Jha is a member of Anveshi Executive Committee. She is a political anthropologist working on questions of democracy and minority political cultures in urban South Asia. Her research and teaching include the fields of gender studies, cultural studies along with the anthropology of politics. She is co-editor, with Navaneetha Mokkil, of Thinking Women: A Feminist Reader, a book conceptualised at Anveshi and published by Stree-Samya in 2019. Shefali currently teaches at DAIICT, Gandhinagar and has been associated with Anveshi in various capacities for twenty years. 

Mithun Som

Mithun Som is a member of Anveshi Executive Committee. She has been associated with Anveshi since a decade and is currently working as a fellow in Anveshi. She is a Public Health researcher and her areas of interest are gender, migration, occupational health, rural and urban health systems, informal workers and urban spaces. She has earlier worked in organisations like PRADAN (in Godda district, Jharkhand), where she interacted closely with the women on issues of livelihood, and National Health System Resource System (NHSRC, New Delhi), where she was involved in the evaluation of the implementation of Janani Surakhsa Yojna in eight states.

Tashi Choedup

Tashi Choedup (They/She) is a member of Anveshi Executive Committee. They are a practicing Buddhist monastic and have more than a decade of experience in human rights and community work. They are a core group member of the National Ecumenical Forum For Gender and Sexual Minorities (NEFGSM) at the National Council of Churches of India and a fellow at Salzburg Global LGBT Forum. They are one of the founding members of Telangana Hijra Intersex Transgender Samiti and Queer Swabhimana Yatra. They are also a student of Buddhist philosophy and psychology. Their primary areas of interest are faith, religion, mental health, and queer rights and their intersection.